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      On Thursday at Flushing Meadows, in the 2nd round of the 2010 US Open, 18-year-old wild card #369 Beatrice Capra from Delray Beach, Florida, a student at the Evert Academy, defeated this year's champion in Madrid, 22-year-old 18th-seeded #20 Aravane Rezai from St. Etienne, France, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 (photo shown).

    Beatrice defeated #94 Karolina Sprem in the 1st round. The highest-ranked player Beatrice had defeated prior to this week was #137 Anastasia Yakimova, earlier this year.

    Beatrice earned her place in the tournament by winning the US Open Wild Card Playoffs last month, defeating #169 Madison Brengle in the final.

    Beatrice said: "I knew [Aravane] was a really tough player. I had a good win first round, and that gave me a lot of confidence. Being able to like compete with her in the first couple games gave me the confidence that I knew I could do well in my match. That really helped me a lot." postmatch interview

    In the 3nd round on Saturday, Beatrice will play the 2006 US Open champion, (and this year's champion in Strasbourg and Memphis), 23-year-old 14th-seeded #16 (and former #1) Maria Sharapova of Russia (residences: Manhattan Beach, California & Bradenton, Florida).

    About the possibility of playing Maria, Beatrice said: "I'm really excited. I think it will be an amazing experience. I know she's just such a tough competitor. When I was younger I used to always look up to her, so I think it will be a really good match for me to see where I am compared to that kind of level."

    Also on Thursday at Flushing Meadows, the champion the past two weeks in Montreal and New Haven, 20-year-old top-seeded #2 (career-high: also #2) Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), crushed, killed and destroyed 19-year-old #89 Kai-Chen Chang from Taoyuan, Taiwan, 6-0, 6-0 (photo shown).

    Caroline said: "I felt great out there today. Everything was fine. I just got something for a headache [during my doubles match] yesterday, and that was it. I was feeling good today. No problems...
    "I've played tough matches in my in the previous weeks. I've been playing really great tennis. I'm feeling good, so no worries." postmatch interview

    In the 3nd round on Saturday, Caroline will another player from Taipei, 21-year-old #76 Yung-Jan Chan. The winner of that match will face either Maria Sharapova or Beatrice Capra in the 4th round.

    Word is that Victoria Azarenka is OK. This year's champion at Stanford, 20-year-old 10th-seeded #11 (career-high: #6) Victoria of Belarus (residence: Scottsdale, Arizona) collapsed during her match against Gisela Dulko on Wednesday while experiencing what the tournament called "headache-like symptoms." Vika was taken to a hospital, where tests revealed she had a mild concussion from a fall in the gym earlier in the day.

    Victoria said: "[Due to the fall in the gym] I was checked by the medical team before I went on court and they were courtside for monitoring. I felt worse as the match went on, having a headache and feeling dizzy."

The tennis.quickfound.net US Open tourney page holds 133 choice photos from this year's US Open, cropped & enhanced, and 16 postmatch quotes.

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ranks are for the previous week
s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser     How do players get into the "draw"?
US Open, 2nd Rd Wed-Thu Sep 1-2 11am
loser's prize: $31,000; points: 100
#2 s1 Caroline Wozniacki DEN d #85 Kai-Chen Chang TPE 6-0, 6-0 Thu
#3 s2 Kim Clijsters BEL d #202 q Sally Peers AUS 6-2, 6-1 Wed
#4 s3 Venus Williams USA d #181 q Rebecca Marino CAN 7-6(3), 6-3 Wed
#5 s4 Jelena Jankovic SRB d #153 q Mirjana Lucic CRO 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 Thu
#6 s5 Samantha Stosur AUS d #64 Anastasia Rodionova AUS 6-1, 6-4 Wed
#7 s6 Francesca Schiavone ITA d #132 q Maria Elena Camerin ITA 6-2, 6-1 Wed
#8 s7 Vera Zvonareva RUS d #96 Sabine Lisicki GER 6-1, 7-6(5) Thu
*#60 Shuai Peng CHN d #10 s9 Agnieszka Radwanska POL 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 Thu
*#42 Gisela Dulko ARG d #11 s10 Victoria Azarenka BLR 5-1
    retired—headache & collapse due to concussion earlier in the day Wed
#12 s11 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS d #57 Anastasija Sevastova LAT 6-2, 6-3 Thu
#13 s12 Elena Dementieva RUS d #79 Sybille Bammer AUT 6-3, 6-4 Wed
*#128 wc Virginie Razzano FRA d #15 s13 Marion Bartoli FRA 7-5, 6-4 Wed
#16 s14 Maria Sharapova RUS d #67 Iveta Benesova CZE 6-1, 6-2 Thu
#17 s15 Yanina Wickmayer BEL d #40 Julia Goerges GER 6-4, 7-5 Thu
#18 s16 Shahar Peer ISR d #105 Pauline Parmentier FRA 6-2, 6-3 Wed
*#369 wc Beatrice Capra USA d #20 s18 Aravane Rezai FRA 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 Thu
#21 s19 Flavia Pennetta ITA d #35 Agnes Szavay HUN 6-1, 6-4 Wed
#22 s20 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS d #160 q Sania Mirza IND 6-2, 6-4 Wed
*#41 Ana Ivanovic SRB d #23 s21 Jie Zheng CHN 6-3, 6-0 Wed
*#52 Patty Schnyder SUI d #24 s22 MJ Martinez Sanchez ESP 7-6(2), 6-4 Thu
#25 s23 Maria Kirilenko RUS d #99 Yvonne Meusburger AUT 4-6, 7-5, 6-0 Thu
#26 s24 Daniela Hantuchova SVK d #74 Vania King USA 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 Wed
#27 s25 Alexandra Dulgheru ROU d #63 Sofia Arvidsson SWE 7-6(5), 6-1 Thu
#29 s27 Petra Kvitova CZE d #54 Elena Baltacha GBR 7-6(5), 6-3 Wed
*#37 Sara Errani ITA d #30 s28 Alisa Kleybanova RUS 6-2, 6-3 Wed
#31 s29 Alona Bondarenko UKR d #44 Melanie Oudin USA 6-2, 7-5 Wed
#33 s31 Kaia Kanepi EST d #77 q Akgul Amanmuradova UZB 6-2, 6-4 Thu
#186 q Mandy Minella LUX d #34 s32 Tsvetana Pironkova BUL 6-4, 6-0 Wed
#38 Andrea Petkovic GER d #83 Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 Thu
#45 Dominika Cibulkova SVK d #62 Kateryna Bondarenko UKR 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(7) Thu
#76 Yung-Jan Chan TPE d #198 q Tamira Paszek AUT 6-3, 6-3 Thu
#151 q Lourdes Dominguez Lino ESP d #328 Urszula Radwanska POL 6-2, 7-5 Thu
US Open, 3rd Rd Fri-Sat Sep 3-4 11am
loser's prize: $50,000; points: 160
#2 s1 Caroline Wozniacki DEN v #76 Yung-Jan Chan TPE Sat
#3 s2 Kim Clijsters BEL v #29 s27 Petra Kvitova CZE Fri cAs m2
#4 s3 Venus Williams USA v #186 q Mandy Minella LUX Fri cAs m4 7pm+
#5 s4 Jelena Jankovic SRB v #33 s31 Kaia Kanepi EST Sat
#6 s5 Samantha Stosur AUS v #37 Sara Errani ITA Fri cAr m1 11am
#7 s6 Francesca Schiavone ITA v #31 s29 Alona Bondarenko UKR Fri cG m2
#8 s7 Vera Zvonareva RUS v #27 s25 Alexandra Dulgheru ROU Sat
#12 s11 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS v #25 s23 Maria Kirilenko RUS Sat
#13 s12 Elena Dementieva RUS v #26 s24 Daniela Hantuchova SVK Fri cAs m1 11am
#16 s14 Maria Sharapova RUS v #369 wc Beatrice Capra USA Sat
#17 s15 Yanina Wickmayer BEL v #52 Patty Schnyder SUI Sat
#18 s16 Shahar Peer ISR v #21 s19 Flavia Pennetta ITA Fri cG m4
#22 s20 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS v #42 Gisela Dulko ARG Fri c11 m2
#38 Andrea Petkovic GER v #60 Shuai Peng CHN Sat
#41 Ana Ivanovic SRB v #128 wc Virginie Razzano FRA Fri cAr m3
#45 Dominika Cibulkova SVK v #151 q L Dominguez Lino ESP Sat
US Open, 4th Rd, Sun-Mon Sep 5-6 11am
loser's prize: $100,000; points: 280
US Open, QFs, Tues-Wed Sep 7-8 11am
loser's prize: $200,000; points: 500
US Open, SFs, Fri Sep 10 CBS-TV 12:30pm
loser's prize: $400,000; points: 900
US Open, Final, Sat Sep 11
loser's prize: $850,000; points: 1400
winner's prize: $1,700,000; points: 2000
US Open, Doubles Final, Sun Sep 12
loser's prize: $210,000
winner's prize: $420,000

US Open, Mixed Doubles Final, Thu Sep 9
loser's prize: $70,000
winner's prize: $150,000

US Open, Girls Singles Final, Sun Sep 12

US Open, Girls Doubles Final, Sat Sep 11

US Open, Withdrawals/Non-entries
#1 Serena Williams USA badly cut right foot which required surgery
#14 Justine Henin BEL right elbow ligment tear
#86 Melinda Czink HUN

  WTA Sep 13-19: Guangzhou & QC

International Women's Open
Guangzhou, CHN
INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d
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#23 J Zheng, #60 J Groth
#77 Y-J Chan, #78 A Amanmuradova

Bell Challenge Quebec City, CAN
INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d
indoor: hard Uniturf
PEPS, Laval University campus
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#14 M Bartoli, #20 A Rezai
#28 L Safarova, #39 B Zahlavova Strycova

    The Guangzhou & Quebec City draws are not yet available as of this writing (qualifying draws are usually up on the Friday before the tourney begins, main draws on Saturday, sometimes later). The links are above for your convenience when the draws become available.

WTA SCOREBOARD: Guangzhou & Quebec City

   
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s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser     How do players get into the "draw"?
Guangzhou, 1st Rd, Mon 2pm/2:30pm, Tue 2pm
loser's prize: $1,725 US; points: 1
#23 Jie Zheng CHN
#60 Jarmila Groth AUS
#77 Yung-Jan Chan TPE
#78 Akgul Amanmuradova UZB
#82 Jelena Dokic AUS
#83 Ayumi Morita JPN
#84 Kai-Chen Chang TPE
#87 Bojana Jovanovski SRB
#89 Alberta Brianti ITA
#92 Chanelle Scheepers RSA
#96 Simona Halep ROU
#100 Ksenia Pervak RUS
#101 Edina Gallovits
#102 Shuai Zhang CHN
#103 Alla Kudryavtseva RUS
#105 Pauline Parmentier
#106 Kurumi Nara JPN
#107 Stefanie Voegele SUI
#110 Tamarine Tanasugarn THA
#116 Mariana Duque Marino
#117 Sophie Ferguson AUS
#127 Katie O'Brien GBR
#130 Maria Elena Camerin ITA
#159 Sania Mirza IND
Guangzhou, 2nd Rd, Wed-Thu 2:30pm
loser's prize: $2,950 US; points: 30
Guangzhou, QFs, Fri 2pm
loser's prize: $5,340 US; points: 70
Guangzhou, SFs, Sat 2pm
loser's prize: $10,200 US; points: 130
Guangzhou, Final, Sun 2:30pm
loser's prize: $19,000 US; points: 200
winner's prize: $37,000 US; points: 280
Guangzhou, Doubles Final, Sun after singles
loser's prize: $5,750 US
winner's prize: $11,000 US

Guangzhou, Qual Finals, Mon Sep 13 10:30am
losers' prizes: q1 $265 1pt; q2 $460 6pts; q3 $860 10pts; qualifier 16 points

Guangzhou, Withdrawals
Quebec City, 1st Rd, Mon-Wed 11am
loser's prize: $1,725 US; points: 1
#14 Marion Bartoli FRA
#20 Aravane Rezai FRA
#28 Lucie Safarova CZE
#39 Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE
#43 Melanie Oudin USA
#44 Julia Goerges GER
#49 Olga Govortsova BLR
#55 Sofia Arvidsson SWE
#69 Johanna Larsson SWE
#76 Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA
#81 Sorana Cirstea ROU
#90 Alicia Molik AUS
#94 Sabine Lisicki GER
#95 Karolina Sprem CRO
#108 Varvara Lepchenko USA
#109 Jill Craybas USA
#112 Christina McHale USA
#113 Shenay Perry USA
#115 Andrea Hlavackova CZE
#133 Michaella Krajicek NED
#134 Stephanie Dubois CAN
#136 Lilia Osterloh USA
#360 sr 83 Marina Erakovic NZL
Quebec City, 2nd Rd, Wed-Thu 11am
loser's prize: $2,950 US; points: 30
Quebec City, QFs, Fri noon
loser's prize: $5,340 US; points: 70
Quebec City, SFs, Sat 1pm & 6:30pm
loser's prize: $10,200 US; points: 130
Quebec City, Final, Sun 1pm+
loser's prize: $19,000 US; points: 200
winner's prize: $37,000 US; points: 280
Quebec City, Doubles Final, Sun noon
loser's prize: $5,750 US
winner's prize: $11,000 US

Quebec City, Qual Finals, Mon Sep 13 11am
losers' prizes: q1 $265 1pt; q2 $460 6pts; q3 $860 10pts; qualifier 16 points

Quebec City, Withdrawals
#54 Aleksandra Wozniak CAN right forearm tendinitis
#984 sr Ashley Harkleroad USA

  WTA Aug 23-28: New Haven

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#21 Nadia Petrova
5'10¼" 143lb RH 2H-BH
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#2 Caroline Wozniacki
5' 10" 128lb RH 2H-BH

Pilot Pen Open, New Haven, CT PREMIER $600,000 30m/32q/16d outdoor: hard
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    On Saturday in New Haven, in the final of the Pilot Pen Open, last week's champion in Montreal (and the top seed at next week's US Open), 20-year-old top-seeded #2 (career-high: also #2) Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated the 2008 champion at Cincinnati, 28-year-old 8th-seeded #21 Nadia Petrova of Russia (residence: like Caroline, income tax-free Monte Carlo), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 (Nadia is shown during the match; Caroline with the glassware afterward).

    It was the third straight year that Caroline has won the New Haven title. Caroline's prize is $98,500; Nadia's is $52,500.

    Hammer-thrower's daughter Nadia struck 12 aces (with 6 double faults). But Caroline, who hit only 4 aces (with 2 DFs), won 61% of her 1st serve points (Nadia: 52%). Caro converted 6 of the 15 break points she reached against Nadia, while Nadia scored on 5 of the 11 break points she held against Caroline.

    Caroline, has now won 10 straight matches on hard courts, and 16 of her last 17 leading up to the US Open. She has been playing a great deal, and has sometimes had to call the trainer for treatment during matches. But, Caroline said: "I feel great. I have a Tuesday start. I’m on a roll." AP story

    Caroline now leads Nadia 3-1 in career matches. Nadia's win over Caroline came in Moscow in 2008, 6-4, 3-2 retired, when Caroline could not continue due to upper respiratory illness. Caroline's earlier wins over Nadia were both this year, on a Plexipave hardcourt in the 4th round at Indian Wells, 6-3, 3-6. 6-0, and on Har-Tru green clay in the quarterfinals at Charleston, 6-3, 6-4.

    2009 US Open finalist Caroline is now 10-7 in WTA singles finals; she won at Montreal last week, at Copenhagen three weeks ago, and Ponte Vedra Beach earlier this year. Caroline has a 45-14 singles match record this season.
    On Thursday, Caroline clinched the US Open Series title. Winning the US Open Series means that Caroline will receive a bonus added to her US Open prize money this year, and, if she wins the US Open title, the bonus will be one million dollars.

    Nadia is now 9-11 in WTA singles finals; she won in Cincinnati and Quebec City in 2008, but she had not reached a final since then. Nadia has a 27-16 singles match record in 2010.

    This was the last year that Pilot Pen will be the New Haven tournament's principal sponsor; the tourney searching for new backing. Caroline said: "I love this tournament. It’s been great preparation for me the last couple of years, so I would love to come back."

    The tennis.quickfound.net New Haven tourney page holds 41 choice photos from this week's tourney, cropped & enhanced, and 5 postmatch quotes.

  WTA Aug 16-22: Montreal

Montreal:
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#10 Vera Zvonareva
5' 7¾" 130½lb RH 2H-BH
Montreal:
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#3 Caroline Wozniacki
5' 10" 128lb RH 2H-BH

Rogers Cup, Montreal, CAN PREMIER 5 $2,000,000 56m/48q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores
draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | interviews | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA

    On Monday in Montreal, in the rain-postponed final of the Rogers Cup (aka the Canadian Open), this year's champion at Copenhagen and Ponte Vedra Beach, 20-year-old 2nd-seeded #3 (career-high: #2) Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated this year's Wimbledon finalist (and champion in Pattya City, Thailand), 25-year-old 8th-seeded #10 (career-high: #5) Vera Zvonareva from Moscow, Russia, 6-3, 6-2 (Caroline is with the Rogers Cup transparent racquet trophy; Vera is shown during her 3rd round win). Caroline's prize is $350,000; Vera's is $175,000.

    The tennis.quickfound.net Montreal tourney page holds 104 choice photos from this week's tourney, cropped and processed, and 21 postmatch quotes.

  WTA Aug 9-15: Cincinnati

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#13 Maria Sharapova
6' 2" 130lb RH 2H-BH
Cincinnati:
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#7 Kim Clijsters
5' 8½" 150lb RH 2H-BH

W&S Financial Open, Cincinnati, OH PREMIER 5 $2,000,000 56m/48q/28d outdoor: hard
Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | pics: DL - Y!: sports | WTA

    On Sunday near Cincinnati, in the final of the Western & Southern Financial Group Open, this year's champ at Miami, (and the last year's US Open champion), 26-year-old 4th seeded #7 (and former #1) Kim Clijsters from Bree, Belgium, defeated this year's champion in Strasbourg and Memphis (and 3-time Grand Slam tourney champ), 23-year-old 10th-seeded #13 (and former #1) Maria Sharapova of Russia (residences: Manhattan Beach, CA & Bradenton, FL), 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-2 (Maria is shown serving during the match; Kim with the ceramicware afterward). Kim's prize is $350,000; Maria's is $175,000.

    The tennis.quickfound.net Cincinnati tourney page holds 106 choice photos from this week's tourney, cropped & enhanced, and 25 postmatch quotes.

  WTA Aug 2-8: San Diego & Copenhagen

San Diego:
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#21 Svetlana Kuznetsova
5' 8½" 161lb RH 2H-BH
Copenhagen:
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#4 Caroline Wozniacki
5' 10" 128lb RH 2H-BH

Mercury Insurance Open, San Diego, CA PREMIER 700 $700,000 30m/32q/16d outdoor: hard
Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | photos: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA

Danish Open, Copenhagen, DEN INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d indoor: hard
Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | photos: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA

    On Sunday at La Costa Resort, near San Diego, California, in the final of the Mercury Insurance Open, the 2009 French Open champ, 25-year-old unseeded #21 (career-high: #2) Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated the 2008 champ at Eastbourne, 21-year-old 4th-seeded #11 (career-high: #8) Agnieszka Radwanska from Krakow, Poland, 6-4, 6(7)-7, 6-3 (Svetlana is shown with the glassware after the match). Svetlana's prize is $107,000; Agnieszka's is $57,150.

    On Sunday at Copenhagen, Denmark, in the final of the e-Boks Danish Open, this year's champion at Ponte Vedra Beach, 20-year-old top-seeded #4 (career-high: #2) Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated 7th-seeded 28-year-old #50 (career-high: #27) Klara (Koukalova) Zakopalova from Prague, Czech Republic, 6-2, 7-6(5) (Caroline is shown with the goodies after the match). Caroline's prize is $37,000; Klara's is $19,000.

    The tennis.quickfound.net San Diego & Copenhagen tourney page holds 96 choice photos from this week's tourneys, cropped & enhanced, and 30 postmatch quotes.

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  WTA June 21-July 4: Wimbledon

Wimbledon:
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#1 Serena Williams
5'9" 135lb RH 2H-BH
Wimbledon:
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#22 Vera Zvonareva
5' 7¾" 130½lb RH 2H-BH
Wimbledon:
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4th Wimbledon Singles Title
37th WTA Singles Title

The Championships
Wimbledon, GBR Grand Slam Prize$: £13,725,000 (all events) 128 players - outdoor: grass
matches: statistics Live Scores - OOP - results
draws: W sing, pdf - women's: qualif. - singles - doub | pics: DL - Y! sport - news | WTA
Wimbledon wallpaper - Video Gallery text: news - interviews - history

        On Saturday in London, England, in the final of The Championships at Wimbledon, the 2002, '03 and '09 tourney champion, 28-year-old #1 Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, FL, won her 4th Wimbledon singles title by defeating last year's champ at Indian Wells, 25-year-old 21st-seeded #22 (career-high: #5) Vera Zvonareva from Moscow, Russia, 6-3, 6-2 (photos shown).

    Serena's prize is £1,000,000 (about $1,455,200 US); Vera's prize is £500,000 (about $727,600 US).

    The tennis.quickfound.net Wimbledon 2010 tourney page holds 236 choice photos from this year's Championships, cropped & enhanced, and 49 postmatch quotes.

  WTA: May 23-Jun 6   French Open

Roland Garros:
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#7 Sam Stosur
5' 7¾" 143lb RH 2H-BH
Roland Garros:
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#18 Francesca Schiavone
5' 5½" 141lb RH 1H-BH
Roland Garros:
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First Grand Slam Title
4th WTA Singles Title

Roland Garros, FRA Grand Slam Prize$: €7,481,600 (women's total) matches: statistics
draws: W sing, pdf - mix doub - women's: qualif. - singles - doub
photos: DL - Y! news - Y! France - WTA | videos: embedded | text: news - interviews
information site for players - 2010 RG Players' Guide: online - .pdf

        Jeep Defeats Cannon: On Saturday at Roland Garros, in the final of the 2010 French Open, this year's Barcelona champ, 29-year-old 17th-seeded #18 (former #11) Francesca Schiavone from Milan, Italy, won her first Grand Slam title by defeating the Charleston champ, 25-year-old 7th-seeded #7 Samantha Stosur from Gold Coast, Australia, 6-4, 7-6(2) (photos shown).

    Francesca's prize is 1,120,000 euros (about $1,417,024 US); Samantha's is 560,000 euros (about $708,512 US).

    The tennis.quickfound.net French Open tourney page holds 301 choice photos from this year at Roland Garros, cropped & enhanced, and 54 postmatch quotes.

  WTA Jan 18-30: Australian Open

Melbourne:
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#1 Serena Williams
5'9" 135lb RH 2H-BH
Melbourne:
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#NR Justine Henin
5' 5¾" 126lb RH 1H-BH
Melbourne:
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5th Aussie Open Title
12th Grand Slam Singles Title

Australian Open, Melbourne, AUS Grand Slam - event stats 128 players - outdoor: hard
matches: Live Scores - OOP - results draws: WS, .pdf - mixed doubles
pics: DL | Y!: sports - news | WTA | interviews 2010 WTA video & audio interviews

photo: Aussie Margaret Smith Court won 62 Grand Slam titles during her career, 24 of them in singles, including 11 Australian national titles.
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      On Saturday in Melbourne, in the final of the 2010 Australian Open, the 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009 AO champ, 28-year-old top-seeded #1 Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, won again, defeating the 2004 Aussie Open champ, 27-year-old unranked former #1 Justine Henin of Belgium (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 (photos shown).
 
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  Tennis Photos & Tennis TV:

    Yahoo! US and ESPN news photo searches are located at the top of every page at tennis.quickfound.net. The same 304x345 pic at Yahoo! US is 452x512 at ESPN and 397x450 at the France & UK Yahoos (but Yahoo! includes Reuters, AFP, and some other agency pics which ESPN does not).
    Yahoo! news photos are kept on the server for 30 days (ESPN: 15 days). The Yahoo! link above is now is now to the new Yahoo! Sports tennis photo gallery, which might not find all of the photos. If you are looking for more, try the individual player names, or the name of the tourney, or the city it is in, with the search form below (or try the international Yahoo! links, below).
    Yahoo! Sports now includes some much larger photos than before from AFP (Agence France-Presse), either 660 or 800 pixels in their largest dimension. Unfortunately, these larger images cannot currently be accessed via the usual Yahoo! News photo search. You have to browse through the Yahoo! Sports tennis photo gallery to find them, or, alternatively, search for a player profile at Yahoo! Sports, then click on the "Photos" link at their profile page, to get the pics. Only the AFP pics are extra large, and not all of them.
    The Tennis.com Photo Gallery, displays the same AP photos as ESPN, with the same quality and size (512 px max), and is, unfortunately, not searchable.

Yahoos! of other nations sometimes include photos not shown on US Yahoo! Also, the UK Yahoo! includes some photos (from the EMPICS agency) that are over 30 days old, unlike the other Yahoos!. The Yahoo links below are category links, instead of keyword links, so if you just want to see all tennis photos click on the links instead of using the search form.

Search Yahoo! UK Tennis Photos:

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CBS Sportsline: Tennis News Photos carries tennis news photos from Getty Images that are not available from Yahoo! or ESPN, plus the same AP pics. The pics are usually larger and sharper than Yahoo US, but smaller than ESPN's. Unfortunately, the Sportsline photo gallery is not searchable, and the photos sometimes on their server for less than one day.

BBC Tennis News Photos are in a slide-show format, and do not link to larger versions.

Archived WTA Player Photos:
The QuickFound.net Photo Search page has direct entries for 9 online photo search engines, including Google, Yahoo, FAST, AltaVista, and Lycos, all on one page.

MFW Web Tennis displays oncourt player photos and quicktime animations attributed to specific tourneys and matches.

wtennisphotos.com displays player photos by Jean-Sebastien Marceau.

WTA Tour Photo Gallery
"SE-WTATour" Photostream at Flickr
"tlaenPix" Photostream at Flickr
Female Tennis Players picture galleries.
WTN Photos
Inside Tennis Photos by Fans
Sportal.au Tennis Photo Galleries
Sporting-Heroes.net has 550 large photos of WTA & ATP players, including many of players of the 70s & 80s that are difficult to find online.

Current Tennis TV Listings:
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• Tennis.com: TV Schedule
• The Tennis Channel: Schedule
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  Sports Sites' Tennis News Pages:

CNN-Sports Illustrated: Tennis covers tennis with AP (and sometimes Reuters) stories. Occasionally the stories have a mid-size photo or two, but not as many as they used to, and the pics are no longer linked to large versions.

BBC Sport: Tennis reduced the length of most stories in 2005. They often have small photos, but never large ones. They also have an online Tennis Academy.

CBS Sportsline.com: Tennis coverage is basically AP, but you have to find photos on a separate page (listed above).

ESPN: Tennis is basically AP; they have improved their layout & navigation.

  Tennis-Specific Sites:

Tennis.com did a complete makeover of their website in 2005, again in 2006, and again in 2010, and Chrissie forgot to call and tell me the URLs had changed every time. The site has statistics, feature stories, results, events information, and hundreds of excellent tennis instruction articles and tips from the publishers of Tennis Magazine.
    You can search the very useful feature article, "Your Game" instruction, and message board forum sections of the Tennis.com website with this form. Try to be specific--if you simply search for "backhand" you will get countless results, all the articles in which the word "backhand" is used.

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TennisForm.com is "the definitive online information source for serious tennis bettors."

Jiro's Tennis Page, which focuses on Thai players, has much useful general WTA & ATP info, including main draw entry lists for many WTA, ATP, and ITF tourneys.

Pro Tennis Fan is a blog site covering both the WTA & ATP, with good player-specific weblogs for many WTA players.

Peter Bodo's Tennis World Blog

Bob Larson's Tennis News

Tennis Live is an all-tennis sports talk radio show.

Tennis-Pool.com is a 100% free online fantasy tennis game, where you can pick and operate your own teams of WTA & ATP players.

String Forum has a database of info on over 1400 tennis racket strings.

Racquet Research although not recently updated, has good pages such as "Introduction to Racquet Science," and racquet selection help.

Operation Doubles: Tennis Doubles Strategy and Tactics covers the three basic doubles formations/strategies, position, switching, poaching, and much more.

Go Tennis requires free registration, but they are loaded with tennis news and info.

Tennis Week has a very large home page (long load), but has match summaries (and an archive of them) you might not find elsewhere.

Tenniscom.com is a comprehensive tennis site for Spanish readers.

College Tennis Online has current collegiate scores, news, and features.

College and Junior Tennis adds scores, news and info from and about Junior tournaments.

JuniorTennis.com features up-to-date coverage of juniors tourneys, plus extensive junior players info and photos.

  WTA Player-Specific Sites:

Martina Hingis & Anna Kournikova have their own subdomains at quickfound.net.
SerenaWilliams.com official
Zvonareva.ru official
ElevenByVenus.com official
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JelenaJankovic.net
CarolineWozniacki.dk official
Elena Dementieva official
VikaAzarenkaTennis.com official
KimClijsters.be official
100% Justine Henin official
Justine-Henin.net (many photos)
MariaSharapova.com official
MariaWorld (Sharapova- 4700+ photos)
Sharapova Masha (good bio info)
en.Nadia-Petrova.ru official
Kuznetsova Fanpage
Maria Kirilenko official
DanielaHantuchova.com official
DSafina.com official
DinaraSafina.com
Dominika Cibulkova official
Agnes Szavay official - in Hungarian
Ana Ivanovic official
alize-cornet.com official
Patty-Schnyder.ch official, in German
Anna Chakvetadze official
Anna's World (Chakvetadze)
Ashley-Harkleroad.com
K-lina.com (Karolina Sprem)
Jelena-Dokic.com
NicoleVaidisova.com
Golovin Attitude
Tatiana-Golovin.net
Mary-Pierce.org
Anastasia-Myskina.com
Myskina.ru official, in Russian
Jennifer Capriati
Monica-Seles.com

  WTA Specific Sites:

The WTA Tour since 1996, which received a major makeover in May, 2007, provides match scores and other stats for all WTA players & events, including head-to-head matchup info, updated weekly.

Blogspot WTA

Women's Tennis Apparel is a blog about what the ladies are wearing.

From January 2000 through March 2001, CNNSI published the Kristina Brandi Tennis Diary, a "diary" kept every 2 weeks by WTA player Kristina Brandi, showing what life is like for touring WTA players.

  Tennis History:

"The 700-year-old French game of tennis, traditionally as much a lady's as a man's game, was introduced to the U.S. in 1874 by a woman, Mary E. Outerbridge..."
See more from this Sept. 9, 1946, TIME Magazine cover story on women's tennis and 1946 Wimbledon and Forest Hills champ Pauline Betz now on the Tennis Articles page.

TIME Magazine, May 23, 1955:
    In her first column, the San Diego Union's new Women's Sports Editor Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, retired as the world's greatest lady tennis star at a ripe old 21, showed that sports punditry is as easy for her as smashing a tennis ball down an opponents throat.
    Lamented Little Mo in great pontifical style: "[On] the American scene today ... we're reducing sports to a cluster of numbers on a board ... We ... are expecting our champions to be stadium automatons, the human equivalents of the balls in a super pinball machine ... We're watching for the numbers to light up and forgetting the play."

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Sportsline Tennis History includes a listing of Grand Slam champions, the winners of the most career singles titles, and more.

The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club site still has some good Wimbledon history pages.

The USOpen.org History has stats and year-by-year finals descriptions since 1968 (but nothing about the Forest Hills and Newport Casino US Nationals before the "Open era").

Other Tennis Stats & Records:
Although crippled by intrusive advertising, Tennis Corner offers excellent single page summaries of ATP and WTA player statistics. And their WTA & ATP Results Archive 1968-2003 has records of ATP and WTA tournament champions and final scores going back to the mid-1970's, and for major tournaments back to 1968 (the first year of "Open" professional tennis).

  Free Online Tennis Books:

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Lawn Tennis for Girls 1920 by
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Lawn Tennis 1886 by James Dwight
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  Tennis Website Search:

The DMOZ Open Directory searches for keywords in website titles and descriptions (not page content). You can limit your search to the Tennis links category, or search all sports links.

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  News Briefs:

    (Sep 2, 2010) WTA #1 Serena Williams has revealed the details of her foot injuries in an interview. The injuries required 18 stiches, 12 on her right foot and 6 on her left foot, and surgery on her right foot to repair a torn toe tendon. USA Today interview

    (August 20, 2010) WTA #1 Serena Williams has withdrawn from this year's US Open. Serena has not yet recovered from cutting her right foot on broken glass at a restaurant in Europe in July, and from repair surgery after the injury. Serena said "My doctors have advised against my playing so that my foot can heal."
    Serena cut her foot after her Wimbledon title victory on July 3, and the injury was at first not thought to be serious. Serena then lost to Kim Clijsters in an exhibition in Belgium on July 8. Asked how she was able to play the exhibition with the injury, Serena said: "Those Belgian doctors and waffles."
    Serena underwent surgery in Los Angeles on July 15. Serena had previously withdrawn from three tourneys leading up to the US Open and from all of her 2010 World Team Tennis matches due to the injury. AP story - July 20 AP update - original AP story

    (August 18, 2010) Former WTA #1 Justine Henin will not play any more WTA tourneys until 2011. Justine incurred a partial ligament tear in her right elbow while playing her 4th round match against Kim Clijsters at Wimbledon on in June (Kim won the match, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3), which had already caused her to withdraw from the summer season, including this year's US Open.

    Justine said: "I took several medical examinations in the last days... Unfortunately the healing process is taking time. This means I must be patient... For my preparation for the competition in 2011, I cannot take any risks, so I hope to be back to practice in October. I'll work hard to get ready for this new season!" Justine's official website - BBC story

    (March 5, 2010) The WTA has posted a new page showing "all-time" (which means since 1989!) and current year's service speed leaders. However, a note at the bottom of the page shows that the data, is only from show courts at a fraction of the tourneys (12 events this year).
    The actual all-time WTA service speed record is 130 miles per hour, set by then 35-year-old Brenda Schultz-McCarthy in the 1st round of qualifying at Cincinnati in 2006. The WTA should not list "all-time" service speed leaders without making this perfectly clear.

    (Feb 9, 2010) 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic is featured in the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which is available online now.
Ana in SI-SE

    (Jan 11, 2010) Former WTA #1 Maria Sharapova has signed a new endorsement contract with Nike which could pay her as much as $70 million over the next eight years.

    In 2007 Maria signed a racquet endorsement contract with Prince which will pay her around $25 million dollars over 10 years.

    Maria's previous deal with Prince, a five-year contract, was signed when she was 14 years old.
    As is often the case with endorsement contracts, the new deal includes a base pay, plus incentives for high rankings and tournament performance.

    Maria also has (or has had) endorsement contracts with Gatorade & Tropicana, Colgate - Palmolive, Motorola (expired in 2007), Parlux Fragrances, Canon, watchmaker TAG Heuer, Land Rover, Nike, and others, plus Japan-only deals with Honda & Pepsi, which make her the highest-paid female athlete in the world, earning an estimated $23 to $25 million a year.
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    (Feb 11, 2009) Maria Kirilenko, Daniela Hantuchova, and Tatiana Golovin are all featured in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which is available online now.

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Maria Kirilenko

    (Jan 5, 2005) The WTA has made a 6-year deal with mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson to become the primary WTA Tour global sponsor. The price? $88 million.

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      (Feb 2006) 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open, and 2008 Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova of Russia is featured in the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Click on the photo to see the SI Swimsuit pages online, including 22 pics of Maria looking very nice.

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